Paul Tisdale said he wants to sign one or two players in January as he implored Exeter City to take advantage of their FA Cup tie with West Bromwich Albion.

The Grecians secured their place in the third round against Premier League opposition in dramatic fashion, coming from behind with 10 men to beat Forest Green Rovers 2-1 after extra-time, with the visitors also having a man sent off.

Tisdale has now called on the club to make the most of the almost-certain capacity crowd at St James Park by putting ticket prices up and turning the tie into a real money spinner.

"We've got to take advantage of it," he stressed. "I’ll be going to the board asking for the opportunity to sign a player or two in January to strengthen our promotion push.

"This is an opportunity to put the prices up, gain the money when we've got it, this is for the club.

"We need to make every advantage we can take here because hopefully this will give us one or two players I'd like to sign in January if I have the chance.

"I knew Tuesday was a really important game for us, because, if we got through, it’s a maximum crowd, we’ll surely put the prices up considerably to give ourselves the opportunity to sign those good players that I’d like.

"I'll be going to the board, possibly writing the email tonight when I get home because we've got to make the most of it."

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Whilst, off the pitch, the club will now be preparing for the West Brom game, Tisdale says that, on it, the match cannot enter the players' heads.

It will mark two years since City last played Premier League opposition in the FA Cup, when they hosted Liverpool in January 2016, and Tisdale is determined not to repeat the same mistakes that were made in the build-up to facing Jurgen Klopp's men, when too much focus was placed on the game and a period of poor league form struck the Grecians.

He said: "It's a one-off game, I want to make sure we absolutely don't do what we do before the Liverpool game, which is lose three league games in a row.

"Our priority is Stevenage on Saturday and, after this conversation, we'll discuss West Brom in January, in the day or two leading up to that game.

"Until then, we'll concentrate on Stevenage, Yeovil and the players will hear nothing of it from me because we want to win some league games.

"We've just lost our consistency in the league at the moment, so West Brom is about the money generated, which will hopefully give me the opportunity to strengthen with a player or two in January.

"It’s a balance – we failed before the Liverpool game, I think, in terms of our focus, we spoke about it all the time and we ended up losing too many games.

"We mustn't do that again, we’ll think about only Stevenage, then only Yeovil and so on for the next few weeks."